Disturber Posted December 26, 2006 Author Posted December 26, 2006 RIP James Brown. I'd hoped I'd get to see him perform live sometime, guess not now. : (Funny. Since this summer I have had hopes that he would come back to Europe to tour. I never saw him live and I really hoped to catch him, perhaps on his last tour. Now that will not happen. Last week I actually watched a DVD with fotage from a late 70's show. What a performer. Stunning.Pass the peas somebody! Don't let his music be forgotten.
HamerHokie Posted December 27, 2006 Posted December 27, 2006 JB was one of my main musical influences. What I learned from him was that rhythm and groove are number one, so make the drums, bass, and guitar play as one massive rhythm instrument. In JB's band the drums drove the train and everyone else reinforced. I think it cost him popularity, as melody sort of took a back seat. Who will take the torch now?
hamerhead Posted December 27, 2006 Posted December 27, 2006 Clyde Stubblefield was the drummer in the band my wife hired for my surprise 40th birthday party. Jammin' with him is something I'll never forget. There's no doubt he was a big part in JB's sound.I didn't 'get' James Brown 'til later in my musical journey, but when the light finally came on, I was crushed by, and sucked in to, what I'd missed for so long.Rip JB. You will always be The Godfather Of Soul.
FunkyE9th Posted December 27, 2006 Posted December 27, 2006 My 1st "real" band started out as a Blues Brothers type of band, so James Brown was a big influence. RIP JB.-FunkyE9th
BCR Greg Posted December 27, 2006 Posted December 27, 2006 He was a badass. He had his "moments", but look at the players that he found or made for us.... Bootsy, Larry Graham, Stubbie.....
Rockola Posted December 27, 2006 Posted December 27, 2006 I somebody mentioned BMW in Bil's thread and then I remember the JB BMW short with Gary Oldman.check it out.
mudshark Posted December 27, 2006 Posted December 27, 2006 I saw JB and his Famous Flames a few times in the '60s; he was an ass kicking organ player and a monster performer. However, my enduring image of JB remains in the memory of his music oozing from the hootches as I walked along at the Marble Mountain helicopter base in DaNang. JB was one of the of the people who sang me back home. Unforgettable.
blackfbiv Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 RIP James Brown...So who's with me on this? It's the curse of 'The Blues Brothers' movie.Hmmm? Maybe not.It probably means I'm (we're) getting older... (face it Dion!!!)
Craig Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 Bye James. I'm sure all the chicks you beat the snot out of will rue your passing. That being said, I dug his tunes.
fruhike Posted December 28, 2006 Posted December 28, 2006 So sad. I probably have about 20 of his CDs and box sets, more than any other artist. Though it probably only represents 1/12 of what he recorded. He will be missed.
Willie G. Moseley Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 Speaking of boxed sets, I recall that when STAR TIME came out in May of 1991, VH-1 was showing a video of historic JB concert footage synchronized with "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", and every time the stop came at the end of the verse and (Jimmy Nolen?) the guitarist did that chinka-chinka riff (Em7?), when the horns kicked in immediately thereafter, the kick-in was coordinated with a split/knee-drop onscreen. If you taped it and used a freeze frame, it was unbelievable to view the height to which Brown would get airborne before hitting the floor in a split. Unbelievably powerful and a second-generation type of encausticity.One hasn't heard many James Brown jokes since he died, but some of the ones that lampooned his raucous lifestyle when he was still around are still humorous, including things like the title of his next single is "Papa's Got A Brand New Arrest Warrant" or Rick Dees' commercial for "The James Brown Automobile Security System" ("It's not horn...it's not a siren...listen to it in action: 'EEEYOW! EEEYOW! EEEYOW!'").One of the best (supposedly true) anecdotes involving Brown was (white) soul singer Mitch Ryder's lament about 10-15 years ago to a journalist that fairly early in his career, he'd torn up both of his knees doing splits, and he didn't understand why, on accounta James Brown, who was then in his late fifties, was still doin' 'em. Mitch was informed by the journalist that James wore knee pads, and Ryder's supposed one-word response was "Oh."
MCChris Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 I'm sure all the chicks you beat the snot out of will rue your passing.He did it out of love.It would have been an honor to have him wave a gun in my face for using the public bathroom in one of his buildings.
tafkathundernotes Posted December 29, 2006 Posted December 29, 2006 They're giving him credit for rap music. Ugh.
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